This Side of the Law

Year: 1950

Runtime: 74 mins

Language: English

Director: Richard L. Bare

Crime

A man finds himself trapped in a cistern, forced to confront the sinister chain of events that led to his confinement. Through flashbacks we see his fateful meeting with a corrupt lawyer who convinces him to assume the identity of a wealthy man who vanished seven years earlier, setting off a treacherous deception.

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